Help increase the GDP of the internet

Stripe builds financial tools and economic infrastructure for the internet. We’re helping small startups and the world’s biggest companies build products, create business models, and scale their efforts globally. And we’d like your help.

We operate at significant scale, but we’re still tiny relative to the opportunity. We have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

The right people don’t always think they’re right

Successful Stripes are rigorous thinkers who appreciate that things worth doing are rarely simple. We want people who are unafraid to be wrong, to enthusiastically back proposals they initially opposed, and to support decisions with numbers and narrative. We operate in situations of substantial uncertainty and cannot afford either timidity or recklessness.

The global financial system can seem like a mystifying domain. It is not. It is composed of people and computers, just like many other systems you’ve worked on. Most Stripes don’t have a background in finance, and they’ve thrived because of their fresh perspectives. We want generalists capable of parachuting anywhere into our operations, learning about a field they have never touched before, and executing competently in areas far outside their formal remit.

We want specialists who are already experts in their chosen field and are ready to spend several years advancing the state of the art in it. We know that we cannot be successful without an environment which enthusiastically supports both over the long arcs of their careers.

People who thrive in high-conflict work environments often do not enjoy the experience here. We try to embrace extreme interpersonal kindness while still encouraging Stripes to take measured risks and act boldly, even in the absence of consensus. We hope that you will strike a balance: unafraid to say what needs saying, but encouraging of others while saying it.

Where we are

More than 1,500 Stripes build products and support our users from offices in San Francisco, Chicago, New York City, Seattle, Amsterdam, Bangalore, Berlin, Dublin, London, Paris, Melbourne, Singapore, and Tokyo—as well as the homes and coworking spaces of our remote colleagues.

Where we need to be

To make geography on the internet less relevant, we need to be working around the world. We can’t build what our customers need without sharing cabs with them in Singapore or buying food together in the darshinis of Bangalore. We need to speak to them in a language they understand—literally and metaphorically. (Stripes across our offices speak over thirty languages. One could reasonably hear five just walking to lunch.) All of this is imperative as we advance the support of local payments used for every experience.

Where we’re improving

We have made some major strides, but the work ahead of us will not be easy. We have teams that span four continents. We need new organizational muscles for apportioning work globally while keeping our ears to the ground locally. All of our users should be surprised to learn that Stripe was not started in their hometown. We have a long way to go.

We survey Stripes twice per year to improve the way we work as a company and as individuals.

Effectively navigating and sharing information

I understand how decisions are made at Stripe, and significant changes are communicated well.

57%

31%

11%

Feedback

I receive constructive feedback from my peers.

66%

24%

10%

Belief in Stripe

I believe in the future and mission of the company.

92%

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Support to do your best work

We offer competitive and comprehensive benefits, though lots of companies can offer you those. We also have a rarer opportunity: The impact you can make from being at a nimble startup, working on a platform that operates at a significant (and quickly growing) scale.

Heterogeneous perspectives

Stripes come from all sorts of backgrounds with experience in engineering, design, operations, consulting, government, finance, healthcare, education, and even forensic anthropology. We strive for humility, as individuals and as an organization. We know that we can be great at doing something alone, but it will be even better when accomplished together. We are also extremely transparent internally. If you are curious about engineering, running startups, corporate strategy, or the global economy, you’ll have experts to learn from. And they’re eager to learn from you.

Ownership and impact

Stripe has sprawling aspirations, but our actual work is mostly done in small teams. There is no magic to working with banking partners in Japan, moving billions of dollars around the world, or pushing the limits of browser animations on our product pages. We have smart people who sweat the details—who start with a blank screen, work until it is ready, and then polish until it is exceptional. You will be able to point to specific, high-impact things that did not exist in the world until you put them there.

We want to talk to you

We will hire hundreds of people who read these words. We cannot possibly succeed in our goals without doing so. We would be thrilled if you had questions about opportunities or just wanted to chat to explore options. Do not worry too much about picking exactly the right one; we can always give you more options after starting the conversation.